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Which organizations developed the first diamond-anvil cells in 1958?
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high-pressure phenomena
Three compression mechanisms in crystals.
The diamond-anvil cell was invented in 1958 almost simultaneously by researchers at two organizations: the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) in Washington, D.C., and the University of Chicago.1